I've decided that it's time to purchase a medium (3/4") shoulder plane and am looking at Lie-Nielsen vs. Veritas. I'd rather not spend that much money but I only want to buy it once. I'd appreciate comments on these or others.
Planning to use it mostly for truing tenons. I just retired and will be moving into a new house and shop next month, so have a looong list of furniture and built-ins to make. I plan on doing a lot of M-T joints.
I have the LN medium shoulder plane and it's a fine tool but I'd rather have their rabbet block plane for most tasks. It just feels better in the hand and works better on longer tenons.
Personally, I've found a router plane to be much more useful for truing/sizing tenon cheeks..
Tenon shoulders need to be square off the saw -a real PITA to square after the fact. I've not found a shoulder plane to be much help for the shoulders b/c there's not much of a reference to get the shoulder line equal on all faces.
I have the LN medium shoulder plane and it's a fine tool but I'd rather have their rabbet block plane for most tasks. It just feels better in the hand and works better on longer tenons.